Archive for the 'Hip Hop & Rap' Category

Top Combine – Jiang Lin

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Top Combine is a Mandopop boy band. They are the first music group managed by China to have members of both Chinese and Korean descent. The group consists of Bird Zhang, Caesar Li, Mars Ma, Kenny Liu, and Tanas Kim, all of which were professionally trained in singing, dancing, modeling, and language. Enjoy their video of Jiang Lin.

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Vanness Wu – She’s Not Sorry

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Vanness Wu is a Taiwanese American actor and singer based in Asia who was born on August 7, 1978, in Los Angeles, United States, and speaks fluent English and Mandarin. As a member of Taiwanese boyband JVKV, he has appeared on three albums. He has also released three solo albums, and collaborated with Korean star Kangta to produce one album, Scandal. He has also been featured on singles by Beyoncé and Coco Lee.

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Edison Chen – Instant

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Edison Chen was born on October 07, 1980 in Vancouver, Canada and is a popular Hong Kong teen idol. A former artist of the Emperor Entertainment Group, he has starred in many films like the Twins Effect and the Internal Affairs. He sings Cantonese Pop (or Cantopop) and can also speak English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Japanese.

Many consider Edison Chen to be the first pop singer to bring hip-hop to the HK music scene, but it was actually LMF that began underground hip-hop in HK. Nonetheless, he made it mainstream with C-pop.

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Lee-Hom Wang – Kiss Goodbye

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Lee-Hom Wang was born on May 17, 1976 and is a four time Golden Melody Award-winning singer-songwriter and actor. He has also received highly recognized success in the entire Southeast Asia. One of his notable contributions to Mandopop was the “chinked-out” music genre; a genre influenced heavily by traditional Chinese music. Wang is currently managed and records albums with Sony BMG.

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